The
biennial World of Threads Festival is a showcase of local, national and
international contemporary fibre and textile art. It is based in
Oakville, Ontario and attracts visitors from around the world. It began
in 1994. The festival is organized and curated by Dawne Rudman and
Gareth Bate and also features guest curators. The main festival venue is
Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.

Patterns,
shapes and forms that we find everywhere and always, are the focus of
this vibrant and absorbing show. It demands not only our close attention
but also our capacity to appreciate the universal aspect of things.
This is our main festival exhibit in the beautiful gallery space and
features 16 artists and 44 pieces.

As
autumn fades and the chill of approaching winter can be felt in the
air, we take refuge in the lingering colour of fall leaves, deep brown
earth, and the rare fragments of summer green. This exhibit pays tribute
to the richness of a dying season.

A sequel to our much appreciated 2012 exhibit Quiet Zone,
this show gives visitors the opportunity to pause, to breath, and to
relax amidst muted colours, receptive forms and an imperturbable
stillness.

And you will find work from two of our SAQA Central Canada Artists in the Quiet Zone 2 Exhibition...

Judy Martin and Penny Berens...as always, beautifully executed hand work reigns in their art work, and is a very special and moving tribute to their design and stitch Mastery...

LAKE, Judith E. Martin, Manitoulin Island, ON

Penny Berens, Granville Ferry, NS

Solo Shows & Installations

With
this exhibit, we enter a world where variety, innovation and a
sustained vision have the upper hand. Featuring the work of 26 artists
from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions, Solo Shows & Installations promises to be the festival’s largest exhibit.

Clothing
has always provided the most clearly recognized use for fibre/textiles.
In this two part exhibit, which combines western design with eastern,
we see how seemingly limitless are the opportunities for variation.

Late
American artist Judith Scott (1943-2005) is best known for her
engrossing, enigmatic fibre sculptures. Introduced to artmaking at age
44 through the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California,
Scott—who was deaf and born with Down syndrome—would go on to produce a
complex, far-reaching and masterful body of work with yarn, thread and
knotted cloth in the eighteen years that followed until her death.
Surveyed here in Canada for the first time, this exhibition covers a
broad spectrum of Scott's output in both sculpture and drawing

Uses textiles and fibre arts as a means to address contemporary issues. Works draw upon personal narratives as they pertain to self,
and reflect on issues concerning experience, relationships and
social-political circumstance. This exhibition features 21 artists.

Do please try to get to the WORLD OF THREADS Festival... the best of the best opportunities to se cutting edge Textile and Fibre Arts, talk with the artists and Curators of the shows and perhaps add some amazing art work to your private collection.